IR Department hosts Ambassador Young-mok Kim

Come hear Ambassador Young-mok Kim's guest lecture, entitled "Emerging Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for
the U.S."

Ambassador Kim was appointed to the
Consul General of the Republic of Korea in New
York in August 2010. He has held many positions
related to either Korea-U.S. bi-lateral relations
or to the security of the Korean peninsula. He
served as political secretary at the Korean
Embassy in Washington D.C. and assumed the posts
of Director, Deputy Director General of the North
American Affairs Bureau of MOFA (1992 and 1998)
and Director-General of the Office of Planning for
the Light Water Reactor Project (1995).

He served in New York as Minister at the
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the
United Nations in New York (1999-2002). He was
then appointed as Deputy Executive Director of the
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
(KEDO), in charge of policy toward North Korea and
the nuclear power project implementation. He
participated in a number of negotiations with
North Korea on nuclear program, and he was one of
the early members in designing the mission of
Korea Energy Development Organization(2003-2005).

Ambassador Kim also served in Côte d'Ivoire,
Singapore, and he assumed the post of Ambassador to
the Islamic Republic of Iran (2007-2010).